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and
Burgoon, Brian
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The Paradox of Well-being: Do Unfavorable Socioeconomic and Sociocultural Contexts Deepen or Dampen Radical Left and Right Voting Among the Less Well-Off?.
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Akkerman, Agnes
Zaslove, Andrej
and
Spruyt, Bram
2017.
‘We the People’ or ‘We the Peoples’? A Comparison of Support for the Populist Radical Right and Populist Radical Left in the Netherlands.
Swiss Political Science Review,
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377.

Fagerholm, Andreas
2017.
What is left for the radical left? A comparative examination of the policies of radical left parties in western Europe before and after 1989.
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p.
16.

Lachat, Romain
2017.
Which way from left to right? On the relation between voters’ issue preferences and left–right orientation in West European democracies.
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Radical left parties (RLP) have been significant actors in many Western European party systems since the expansion of mass democracy. In some cases, they have been very relevant forces in terms of popular support. Despite this fact, they have not received a great deal of attention in past decades from a comparative perspective. Through examination of the role of an important set of factors, this article provides, for the first time, a cross-national empirical account of the variation in voting for RLPs across Western Europe, based on individual-level data. It evaluates the effect of key socio-demographic and attitudinal individual-level variables on the RLP vote. The findings point to the continuing relevance of some social and political factors traditionally associated with votes for RLPs, and to the relevance of attitudinal variables.